Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-17 Thread Sevatio Octavio
-Original Message- From: Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 10:41 PM Subject: RE: [expert] Switch Hub On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: -thanks, that's teh last straw for me. I'm getting myself a SMC 8 Port 10/100 -Full/Half Switch

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-17 Thread Singer XJ Wang
] Switch Hub On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: -thanks, that's teh last straw for me. I'm getting myself a SMC 8 Port 10/100 -Full/Half Switch hehe :) - -sure hope it improves performance over my 10BaseT Dumb HUB :) I hope so too. However, remember the First Most Neglected Law of Network

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-17 Thread John LeMay
PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 10:41 PM Subject: RE: [expert] Switch Hub On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: -thanks, that's teh last straw for me. I'm getting myself a SMC 8 Port 10/100 -Full/Half Switch hehe :) - -sure hope it improves performance over my 10BaseT Dumb HUB :) I

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-17 Thread Sevatio Octavio
PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 5:42 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Switch Hub I would guess one of the adapters is incorrectly negotiating it's speed and or duplexity. Try hard coding both cards to 10/hdx or 100/fdx and see if that fixes the problem. Sevatio Octavio

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-16 Thread Marc . MOURIER
is to read the documentation of the product as to how it is configured (based on L2 or L3 informations)... -Message d'origine- De: Singer XJ Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 16 novembre 1999 03:48 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: RE: [expert] Switch Hub I know what

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-16 Thread S. Newhouse
Why is a switch (or bridge) a bad idea? -sen A switch is really nothing more than a bridge anyway. Everyone decided that bridges are bad, so the marketing folks renamed them and repositioned them in the market. Stephen Carville wrote: A switched hub is a multiport bridge.

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-16 Thread Stephen Carville
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: -Why is a switch (or bridge) a bad idea? It's not. Like anything else in a network, switches and bridges have their place. When I was in college I did network installation for schools and sometime just adding a switch to segment the LAN did wonders for the

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-16 Thread Stephen Carville
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: -thanks, that's teh last straw for me. I'm getting myself a SMC 8 Port 10/100 -Full/Half Switch hehe :) - -sure hope it improves performance over my 10BaseT Dumb HUB :) I hope so too. However, remember the First Most Neglected Law of Network Design: More

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Pastor Torrente, Guillermo
What does exactly mean full duplex and half duplex? TIA

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread James Moody
Voiceband modems may operate in a variety of transmission modes, including simplex, half-duplex, and full-duplex. Simplex transmission is one-way transmission between a transmitter and a corresponding receiver. In half-duplex transmission, two-way transmission is possible, but it cannot take

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Marco Ciampa
On lun, 15 nov 1999, Pastor Torrente, Guillermo wrote: What does exactly mean full duplex and half duplex? TIA When you talk at the phone it is full-duplex When you talk by radio it is half duplex -- Marco Ciampa c:\winnt secure_nt.exe Securing NT. Insert Linux boot disk to continue..

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread John LeMay
This is an extremely poor and technically incorrect explanation, however I understand what the writer was attempting. Full duplex is defined as the ability to transmit and receive data simultaneously. Half duplex is defined as the ability to transmit or to receive data at any moment at time.

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Singer XJ Wang
I still havn't gotten answer to my big question: I see Switched HUBS and SWITCHES what's the diff between those or are they teh same but some wierd marketing scheme?

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Bug Hunter
A hub is like a wire splitter that connects all the wires together. a switch has a computer that only connects the wires together for the data packets that matter. On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: I still havn't gotten answer to my big question: I see Switched HUBS and

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Bug Hunter wrote: A hub is like a wire splitter that connects all the wires together. a switch has a computer that only connects the wires together for the data packets that matter. On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: I still havn't gotten answer to my big question: I

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread John LeMay
If you had been keeping up with earlier posts to this thread you should have realized that switches and hubs are two different things. A "switched hub" is an oxymoron, IMHO. Singer XJ Wang wrote: I still havn't gotten answer to my big question: I see Switched HUBS and SWITCHES what's

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Singer XJ Wang
:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Switch Hub A hub is like a wire splitter that connects all the wires together. a switch has a computer that only connects the wires together for the data packets that matter. On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: I still

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Singer XJ Wang
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John LeMay Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Switch Hub If you had been keeping up with earlier posts to this thread you should have realized

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-15 Thread Stephen Carville
] Switch Hub - - - - A hub is like a wire splitter that connects all the wires together. - - a switch has a computer that only connects the wires together for the - data packets that matter. - - - - On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: - - I still havn't gotten answer to my big question

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-12 Thread Singer XJ Wang
: [expert] Switch Hub Ramon Gandia wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: I have a 10BaseT Dumb Hub what's a swtich?and what does it have that's better then an 8 hub? In a hub, all the ethernet traffic appears at all ports of the hub. Even those not meant for your

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, you wrote: how much say for a 10BaseT swtich for say 8 ports? and 100 baseT? for 8 ports? Went to C|Net's Shopper.com site and found an 8-port Asante' Technologies switch for $124.00 +shipping, etc. Reasonable price, including expedited shipping, insurance, etc $150.00

[expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-11 Thread Singer XJ Wang
I have a 10BaseT Dumb Hub what's a swtich?and what does it have that's better then an 8 hub? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Boening Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 1:51 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert]

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-11 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 07:32 PM 11/11/99 -0400, Singer XJ Wang wrote: I have a 10BaseT Dumb Hub what's a swtich?and what does it have that's better then an 8 hub? with a switch, each host has it's own dedicated port, so there are not collisions on a busy lan (oversimplified, but basically true).

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-11 Thread Ramon Gandia
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: I have a 10BaseT Dumb Hub what's a swtich?and what does it have that's better then an 8 hub? In a hub, all the ethernet traffic appears at all ports of the hub. Even those not meant for your computer. In a switch, this is segregated. It

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-11 Thread Singer XJ Wang
9:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Switch Hub On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: I have a 10BaseT Dumb Hub what's a swtich?and what does it have that's better then an 8 hub? In a hub, all the ethernet traffic appears at all ports of the hub. Even those

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-11 Thread Larry Sword
Ramon Gandia wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Singer XJ Wang wrote: I have a 10BaseT Dumb Hub what's a swtich?and what does it have that's better then an 8 hub? In a hub, all the ethernet traffic appears at all ports of the hub. Even those not meant for your computer. In a switch,

Re: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-01-15 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
: RE: [expert] Switch Hub On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: -thanks, that's teh last straw for me. I'm getting myself a SMC 8 Port 10/100 -Full/Half Switch hehe :) - -sure hope it improves performance over my 10BaseT Dumb HUB :) I hope so too. However, remember the First Most Neglected